Honorary Degree Recipients

On January 2, 1998, Lee P. Brown was inaugurated as
the 50th Mayor of the City of Houston. On November 2, 1999, Houston voters
overwhelmingly reelected Mayor Brown to a second term.

Mayor Brown has spent his professional career working
to empower people and communities to improve their safety, security, and
quality of life. At his inauguration, Mayor Brown outlined a set of five
guiding principles. The first, Neighborhood Oriented Government,
builds a stronger bond between neighborhoods and City Hall. Recognizing the
size and scope of Houston, the city has been divided into 88 super
neighborhoods to solve problems at the neighborhood level.

Each super neighborhood has a council and liaison, serving as links between
the neighborhood and city government. Mayor Brown has improved access to
city government through Town Hall Meetings, where he literally takes city
government to the communities, and Mayor's Night In, where Mayor Brown opens
up City Hall at night. Mayor Brown stresses the point that city employees
are public servants and are expected to deliver city services in a prompt
and courteous manner.

Mayor Brown dedicated his administration to the
children of Houston and made providing Opportunities for Youth his
second guiding principle. He has lived up to his promise by increasing funds
for after-school programs and creating a variety of youth-oriented programs
such as the Power Card Challenge, which doubled the number of juvenile
library cardholders in its first year. Mayor Brown was named 1999 Politician
of the Year by Library Journal for his vision and active support of
the library system and the children of Houston.

Improving Transportation and Infrastructure is
Mayor Brown's third guiding principle. He is currently overseeing a $3
billion, five-year Capital Improvement Plan, including a $1.4 billion
program for Houston's three major airports, the largest capital improvement
project ever launched for Houston's Airport System. The Houston 2000
Transportation Plan will address the city's long-term transportation needs,
including light rail.

Mayor Brown has made Economic Development and
International Trade the fourth guiding principle of his administration.
More than 150,000 construction permits valued at over $3 billion were issued
during fiscal year 1998-1999. Downtown is thriving with more than $1.6
billion in projects under construction or completed and another $1 billion
under development. As the driving force behind downtown revitalization,
Mayor Brown has been involved in such major downtown projects as the opening
of Bayou Place and Sesquicentennial Park; the planned expansion of George R.
Brown Convention Center; and the construction of Enron Field, the Hobby
Center for the Performing Arts, the Convention Center Hotel, and the
Cotswold Project, a plan to improve the streetscape in the northern portion
of downtown. Mayor Brown has led several trade missions abroad and is
overseeing the effort to bring the 2012 Summer Olympic Games to Houston.

Mayor Brown's fifth guiding principle, Continuous
Management Improvement, focuses on improving the efficiency of every
city department. Implementation of Continuous Management Improvement began
with an in-depth analysis of all of the city's departments by the Mayor's
Transition Team. The team then made recommendations for streamlining and
improving the city's delivery of services. Many of the recommendations have
been implemented and have already proven effective in improving city
government, including a pay raise for police officers, the completion of a
master plan for the city's parks system, and the establishment of the Office
of the Inspector General to investigate allegations of employee misconduct.

The son of farm workers, Lee Brown worked his way
through college and earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Criminology from Fresno
State University in 1961, a Master’s in Sociology from San Jose State
University in 1964, and a Master’s (1968) and a Doctorate (1970) in
Criminology from the University of California at Berkeley.

Mayor Brown began his distinguished career in law enforcement in 1960 as a
patrolman in San Jose, California. He has served as Sheriff of Multnomah
County, Oregon; Commissioner of Public Safety in Atlanta, Georgia; Chief of
the Houston Police Department; and Commissioner of the New York City Police
Department. In 1993, Brown's success as a crime-fighter was recognized when
President Clinton selected him to serve in the cabinet-level position of
Director of National Drug Control Policy. Prior to seeking the office of
Mayor, Dr. Brown was the Radaslav A. Tsanoff Professor of Public Affairs in
the Department of Sociology and a Scholar at the James A. Baker III
Institute for Public Policy at Rice University.

Mayor Brown has four grown children and eleven grandchildren from his marriage to his late wife, Yvonne. He is now married to Frances Young, a teacher in the Houston
Independent School District.

For
the Degree of Doctor of ScienceDR. MARK E. DEAN

Dr. Mark Dean is presently an IBM Fellow and Vice President of Systems in
IBM Research. He is responsible for the research and application of systems
technologies spanning circuits to operating environments. Key technologies
in his research team include cellular systems structures (Blue Gene),
digital visualization, DA tools, Linux optimizations for Pervasive, SMPs &
Clusters, Settop Box integration, MXT, S/390 & PowerPC processors, super
dense servers, formal verification methods, and high speed low power
circuits.

Prior to this, Dr. Dean was responsible for the IBM
Austin Research Laboratory in Austin, Texas. He was appointed to this
position in November 1997. The primary focus of the laboratory is the
development of high performance microprocessors, systems and software,
including the circuits, tools, and micro-architectures to support high
frequency operation. Other ARL research activities include high MIPS/milliwatt
embedded controllers, full system simulation, formal verification, design
for manufacturability, and low temperature cooling methods. Recent lab
accomplishments include the successful testing of the first 1GHz CMOS
microprocessor, design of a high speed DRAM (<5ns latency), ACES EDA tool
development, SimOS-PPC full system simulator demonstration, and the
prototyping of a highly scaleable SMP architecture (NUMA) for Intel and
PowerPC.

Throughout his 22-year career with IBM, Mark has held
several engineering positions in the area of computer system hardware
architecture and design He worked on establishing the strategy,
architecture, design, and business plan for proposed video server offerings
and studied the technology and business opportunity for settop boxes. He was
also chief engineer for the development of the IBM PC/AT, ISA systems bus,
PS/2 Model 70 & 80, the Color Graphics Adapter, and numerous other
subsystems.

Dr. Dean received a BSEE degree from the University of
Tennessee in 1979, a MSEE degree from Florida Atlantic University in 1982,
and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1992. He
has papers published in the IEEE Computer Society Press, MIT Press, and IBM
Technical Disclosure Bulletin.

Dr. Dean's most recent awards include: IEEE Fellow, the
Black Engineer of the Year Award, the NSBE Distinguished Engineer award, and
the Ronald H. Brown American Innovators Award in Washington, DC. He was
inducted as a member of both the National Academy of Engineering and the
National Inventor’s Hall of Fame in Akron, Ohio. Dr. Dean was appointed to
IBM Fellow in 1995, IBM's highest technical honor. Only 50 out of more than
310,000 IBM employees have the level of IBM Fellow. Dr. Dean is also a
member of the IBM Academy of Technology. Dr. Dean has received several
academic and IBM awards, including 13 Invention Achievement Awards and six
Corporate Awards. He also has more than 30 patents or patents pending.

For
the Degree of Doctor of HumanitiesMS. JUDITH A. JAMISON

Judith Jamison was appointed Artistic Director of the Alvin Ailey American
Dance Theater in 1989, after the death of her mentor, Alvin Ailey. A native
of Philadelphia, she studied with the late Marion Cuvjet, was discovered by
Agnes de Mille, and made her New York debut with American Ballet Theatre in
1964. She became a member of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre in 1965
and danced with the company for 15 years to great acclaim. Recognizing her
extraordinary talent, Mr. Ailey created some of his most enduring roles for
her, most notably the tour de force solo, Cry.

After leaving the Company in 1980, Ms. Jamison appeared
as a guest artist with ballet companies all over the world and starred in
the hit Broadway musical, Sophisticated Ladies. In 1988, she formed
her own company, The Jamison Project; a PBS special depicting her creative
process, Judith Jamison: The Dancemaker aired nationally the same
year.

As a highly regarded choreographer, Ms. Jamison has
created works for many companies. HERE…NOW, commissioned for the 2002
Cultural Olympiad of the 2002 Olympic Winter Games and Paralympic Games, is
her most recent ballet. She choreographed Double Exposure for the
Lincoln Center Festival in July 2000. Divining (1984), Rift (1991), Hymn (1993), Riverside (1995), Sweet Release (1996),
and Echo: Far From Home (1998) are other major works she has
choreographed for the Company.

Ms. Jamison is a master teacher, lecturer, and author.
Her autobiography, Dancing Spirit, was published in 1993. She is a
noted authority on modern dance and an advocate for education in the arts.
She is the recipient of many awards and honorary degrees, including a prime
time Emmy Award and an American Choreography Award for Outstanding
Choreography in the PPS “Great Performances: Dance In America” special, A
Hymn for Alvin Ailey. In December 1999, Ms. Jamison was presented with
the Kennedy Center Honor, recognizing her lifetime contributions to American
culture through the performing arts. She received the Algur H. Meadows Award
from Southern Methodist University in 2001. Most recently, Ms. Jamison
carried the Olympic torch during the relay prior to the opening ceremonies
in Salt Lake City.

Today, Judith Jamison presides over a renewed Ailey
organization, fiscally and artistically invigorated. Her presence has been a
catalyst, propelling the organization in new directions that include the
development of the Women's Choreography Initiative, performances at the 2002
Cultural Olympiad, the 1996 Atlanta Games, and two unprecedented engagements
in South Africa. Ms. Jamison has continued Mr. Ailey’s practice of
showcasing the talents of emerging choreographers from within the ranks of
the Company. As Artistic Director of The Ailey School, the official school
of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, she has helped to implement a
multicultural curriculum including salsa and the dances of West Africa and
South India. She has also been a guiding force in establishing the B.F.A.
program between The Ailey School and Fordham University, which offers a
unique combination of superb dance training and a superior liberal arts
education. Following the tradition of Alvin Ailey, Ms. Jamison is dedicated
to asserting the prominence of the arts in our culture, spearheading
initiatives to bring dance into the community and programs that introduce
children to the arts. She remains committed to promoting the significance of
the Ailey legacy—dance as a medium to honoring the past, celebrating the
present, and fearlessly reaching into the future. Currently, she is at the
forefront of the campaign for The Ailey’s new home. The state-of-the-art
building, scheduled to open in 2004, will be the realization of a
long-awaited dream.

For
Special Citation of AchievementMS. VENUS EBONY STARR WILLIAMS

Venus Williams has come a long way from the gang-plagued city outside Los
Angeles where she grew up and practiced tennis between drive-by shootings,
broken glass, and drug dealers. She made her professional tennis debut at
the tender age of 14 in Oakland, California, having won every junior event
she entered before turning pro. While her signature beads have given way to
stylish braids, her quest toward the top of the tennis world continues
unabated.

With a serve that has been clocked at 127 mph, Ms.
Williams is setting a new standard for power in the sport. She won her first
singles title, the IGA Tennis Classic, in March 1998, and holds numerous
tournament titles, including two-time winner of the U.S. Open and Wimbledon
(she is the first African-American woman to win the Wimbledon title since
Althea Gibson).

In 2000 alone, Ms. Williams renewed her contract with
Reebok, believed to be the most lucrative endorsement deal in women’s
sports; won the Olympic gold medal in singles and doubles, becoming one of
only two women to win both in medal competition; and was named Sports Woman
of the Year by Sports Illustrated magazine. Ms. Williams continually
defies convention, most recently in February 2002 when she became the first
African-American woman to reach the No. 1 ranking on the Sanex WTA Tour.

Born in 1980, the fourth of five girls, Ms. Williams’
dad, Richard, taught all of his daughters to play tennis at the age of four.
He went on to coach the two youngest. Venus and Serena both took to the game
successfully, becoming the first sisters to be ranked in the Top 10
simultaneously since 1991. The two won the French Open doubles title, making
them the first sisters to win a Grand Slam crown together in the 20th
century. Ms. Williams says she doesn’t intend to play past the age of 26. In
fact, she plans to ponder a number of other career options, including her
interest in becoming a clothing designer.